In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And without the love of Jesus, everything else is useless.
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God
With the sign of the Cross, I shall more certainly break through the ranks of the enemy than if armed with shield and sword
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.